NY Public Library getting Maya Angelou's papers

[October 27, 2010]  NEW YORK (AP) -- Personal papers of Maya Angelou documenting decades of her literary career have been acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York.

They include early correspondence with Malcolm X and James Baldwin. The Schomburg is a research unit of the New York Public Library in Harlem and plans to announce the acquisition this week.

The center says the nearly 350 boxes contained correspondence, drafts, handwritten manuscripts and fan mail.

Angelou says deciding to put her collection at the Schomburg was a "no-brainer."

The center says the material includes notes for her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and the composition "On the Pulse of Morning" written for President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration.

[Associated Press; By ULA ILNYTZKY]

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